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Hungarian Dance No. 5 of Johannes Brahms and
Symphony No.40 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Johannes Brahms
Tempo: Allegro (fast)
Time Signature: 2/4 - Simple Duple Time
Musical form: Compound Ternary - AA | BB | CC | A | B
Johannes Brahms, the nineteenth-century German composer, was one of the most influential Romantic period composers. He completed the Hungarian Dances, a set of 21 lively dance tunes in 1869 based mostly on Hungarian traditional musical themes. All of them vary from about a minute to four minutes in length. They are among Brahms' most popular music works and were the most profitable work for him. The most famous of Hungarian Dance is No. 5 in F minor piano duet; and G minor in the orchestral version. Hungarian Dance No. 5 uses themes from Hungarian Gypsy dance music. According to the research of Ozgurnevres, the piece was based on the csárdás by Kéler Béla
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40, like most of the symphonies in Classic Era, uses in the sonata form. The strings are busy most of the time and play a variety of things such as the melody, running scales, sustained notes, and chords. The woodwind instruments do not play as frequently as the strings. Woodwinds tend to have longer and continued notes, not as many fast and short runs. They share the start of the second subject with the strings. Unlike most of the other first movement sonatas in Classical Era, Mozart begins it in the middle by dropping the listener into the fast motion of the lower strings and a dense melody in violin. The second theme of the first movement is a contrast, a chromatic descent that begins in the strings, changes color quickly into the winds and then returns to the strings. The development section is full of modulations and plays fragments of the first theme in a variety of key areas. When the recapitulation come, the violins turn to lower strings. The balance between emotion and control is at the heart of this